Tag: upgrade
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FreeNAS successful
As planned, my upgrade of the FreeNAS media server was completed, successfully upgrading our 10 TB of storage to a new total of 48 TB. The data migration only ran about 12 hours, much shorter than I had feared, and overall the upgrade was fairly painless. In the process, I also upgraded to the latest…
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FreeNAS updates
I haven’t posted about my media server and file server in a long time, which is an indication of just how out of date the current software is. In truth, it has been running fine, so there was little reason to upgrade. And the last time I tried a major update, everything crashed and had…
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Privacy
On Friday, the site software notified me of an upgrade to WordPress, moving to 4.9.6, which as usual I installed. As expected, the install was quick and painless, rarely ever any issues. However, with the new update, there is now a new focus on Privacy Policies, no doubt a result of all of the recent…
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Teamviewer replacement
Running a bit late today, so posting late. Been distracted, running into issues with my long-term go-to for remote management, Teamviewer. While trying to update various computers around the house, I started encountering a 5-minute time limit, apparently due to concerns I might be using the software for business purposes. Although I do not use…
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Laptop upgrade
Spending the evening working on the wife’s laptop, to upgrade the factory stock SSD drive from 512 GB to a new 1 TB SSD drive. Most of the effort is relatively easy (cloning the drive), but the real challenge will be the actual replacement. For various reasons, laptops these days no longer have the “easy”…